Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated With
Streptococcal Infection, or, because every disease needs an acronym,
Pandas, brought on by the antibodies created to fight strep throat.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/22/magazine/22OCD.html?th&emc=th (NYT
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http://intramural.nimh.nih.gov/research/pdn/web.htm
(The NYT article raises the question of prophylactic antibiotics. The
ethics of this I think also relates to question of prophylactic
antipsychotics (pre-symptomatic, "likely to become" interventions. S.)
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